Yesterday in AI: 11 June 2026 — $360M Poured Into Humans and Agent Safety

Anthropic commits $350M to embed AI fellows in nonprofits and fund job-displacement research; Google DeepMind and four partners launch a $10M multi-agent safety fund; OpenAI opens Codex to Oracle Cloud customers via existing enterprise contracts.

By OMC Editorial on 2026-06-12

TL;DR — Anthropic pledges $350M to embed AI fellows in nonprofits and study job displacement; Google DeepMind and four partners launch a $10M fund for multi-agent AI safety research; OpenAI opens its frontier models and Codex to Oracle Cloud customers through existing enterprise credits. --- 1️⃣ Anthropic Bets $350M That Humans Need a Lifeline - What: Anthropic announced Claude Corps — a $150M fellowship placing 1,000 AI-trained fellows inside US nonprofits — plus a $200M Economic Futures Research Fund studying AI-driven job displacement. - Why it matters: At $85K salary per fellow fully covered by Anthropic, this is one of the largest AI-workforce interventions by a frontier lab — a visible pivot toward social accountability days after public controversy over Claude's use in military targeting. - Key number: 400+ host nonprofits each receive a $10,000 implementation grant plus up to $2,500 in Claude credits per embedded fellow. Claude Corps deploys 1,000 fellows — each trained in Claude usage — across US nonprofits for one-year placements. The first cohort of 100 begins in October 2026; 900 more join in January and August 2027. The program is operated with CodePath as employer of record and Social Finance handling evaluation and long-term scaling. The companion $200M Economic Futures Research Fund is a separate, arms-length commitment to fund independent economists studying AI's impact on wages and employment. Anthropic president Daniela Amodei said the fund is deliberately structured to prevent Anthropic-biased conclusions. The $350M combined commitment signals that Anthropic — under pressure after the Dario Amodei interview on Claude's role in the Iran conflict — is making a conspicuous bet on the human cost of AI deployment. 📎 Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/11/anthropic-ai-claude-corps-daniela-amodei/d11fd0a0-6595-11f1-bdd4-805ebb99a693story.html · Yahoo Financehttps://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/anthrop